Endeavour: The Story Of Captain Cook's First Great Epic Voyage [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Reseña del editor

Captain James Cook's voyage in the Endeavour which resulted in the mapping of New Zealand and the east coast of Australia, was an epic voyage into the unknown. According to the British government, who wished to deceive the world to its true purpose, it was merely a scientific expedition to observe the transit of the planet Venus across the sun, a measurement which could help establish the scale of the universe itself. Instead it turned out to be one of the greatest voyages of discovery ever undertaken by man.

The narrative brings to life the main characters and the reader feels as if he was with Cook, Joseph Banks and his sailors as their ship became the first ship to enter the Pacific Ocean and to know her precise whereabouts on the surface of the earth.

Biografía del autor

Peter Aughton lectures at the University of the West of England and in the 1970s he worked on the Concorde supersonic airliner. He is a Member of the British Computer Society and an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. He is married with two children.